Her life is in art. Education, career and family of the artist of the end of the nineteenth - early twentieth century

A real book is a social story of artists of the late XIX - early twentieth centuries. Analyzing domestic art, researchers turn to memoirs and personal documents, as well as self -portraits that allow you to see how the artists themselves perceived themselves and their position in society.

The book describes in detail the context in which the professional formation of a woman in art took place, namely the historical transformations of professional education and the social status of the artist. Researchers analyze such gender aspects as the origin, marriage, the presence of children, life, etc., which directly influenced the career of the artist. The history of domestic art appears before the reader with another - female - side. There are no geniuses, deep emotional torment, great works and achievements, but there is a layer of everyday struggle for the right to be an artist invisible to large narratives.

Olesya Avramenko (born 1959) - cand. Art History, independent researcher Gender, writer. It is engaged in the analysis of the situation of a woman in the history of domestic art. The author of the book “Gender in Soviet Unofficial Art” (2021)

Galya Leonova (born 1988) - Ph.D. Philos. Sciences (aesthetics), teacher of the Higher School of Economics, researcher Gender. She supervised exhibitions and discussions within the framework of the “Tenth” project (2018–2021) He is engaged in the theory of art of the twentieth century and female art history